I don’t derive any satisfaction from a debunking. I really don’t. Discovering the truth is a reward in itself.

Having a knack for getting to the bottom of a thing also helps with maintaining credibility. Historiography is among other things concerned with source criticism. And while I’m not an academically trained historian, I am quite aware that one should strive to consult the primary source as opposed to relying on the word of secondary or even tertiary accounts.

The matter at hand deals with an alleged “three world war” prediction from famed Mason, Scottish Rite Sovereign Grand Commander Albert Pike. William Guy Carr was the key purveyor of the tale which, to me, was suspicious to say the least.

Off and on I’ve been working at it. And I’ve finally cracked the case.

The “Three World Wars” website and Carr

Let’s begin with the modern populariser of the Pike/Mazzini, 1871 “letter.”

In 2003, an Englishman by the name of Michael Haupt[fig 1]launched[fig 2] his website threeworldwars.com in response to Jihadist terrorism and the American invasion of Iraq. Backed by the knowledge gleaned from a conspiratorial view of history and an obvious impending cataclysm, the words of William Guy Carr, attributed to Albert Pike, seemed to precisely predict the dire circumstances unfolding in the Middle East.

One message that Albert Pike received from his “spirit guide,” and which in reality we know to be a demonic vision, he described in a letter that he wrote to Mazzini, dated August 15, 1871. This letter graphically outlined plans for three world wars that were seen as necessary to bring about the One World Order, and we can marvel at how accurately it has predicted events that have already taken place. This is not because the devil has powers of prophecy, but because his agents have undertaken to manipulate political events to closely follow his designs. For a short time, this letter was on display in the British Museum Library in London, and it was copied by William Guy Carr, former Intelligence Officer in the Royal Canadian Navy.

“The First World War must be brought about in order to permit the Illuminati to overthrow the power of the Czars in Russia and of making that country a fortress of atheistic Communism. The divergences caused by the “agentur” (agents) of the Illuminati between the British and Germanic Empires will be used to foment this war. At the end of the war, Communism will be built and used in order to destroy the other governments and in order to weaken the religions.”

Students of history will recognize that the political alliances of England on one side and Germany on the other, forged between 1871 and 1898 by Otto von Bismarck, co-conspirator of Albert Pike, were instrumental in bringing about the First World War.

“The Second World War must be fomented by taking advantage of the differences between the Fascists and the political Zionists. This war must be brought about so that Nazism is destroyed and that the political Zionism be strong enough to institute a sovereign state of Israel in Palestine. During the Second World War, International Communism must become strong enough in order to balance Christendom, which would be then restrained and held in check until the time when we would need it for the final social cataclysm.”

After this Second World War, Communism was made strong enough to begin taking over weaker governments. In 1945, at the Potsdam Conference between Truman, Churchill, and Stalin, a large portion of Europe was simply handed over to Russia, and on the other side of the world, the aftermath of the war with Japan helped to sweep the tide of Communism into China.

“The Third World War must be fomented by taking advantage of the differences caused by the “agentur” of the “Illuminati” between the political Zionists and the leaders of Islamic World. The war must be conducted in such a way that Islam (the Moslem Arabic World) and political Zionism (the State of Israel) mutually destroy each other. Meanwhile the other nations, once more divided on this issue will be constrained to fight to the point of complete physical, moral, spiritual and economical exhaustion…We shall unleash the Nihilists and the atheists, and we shall provoke a formidable social cataclysm which in all its horror will show clearly to the nations the effect of absolute atheism, origin of savagery and of the most bloody turmoil. Then everywhere, the citizens, obliged to defend themselves against the world minority of revolutionaries, will exterminate those destroyers of civilization, and the multitude, disillusioned with Christianity, whose deistic spirits will from that moment be without compass or direction, anxious for an ideal, but without knowing where to render its adoration, will receive the true light through the universal manifestation of the pure doctrine of Lucifer, brought finally out in the public view. This manifestation will result from the general reactionary movement which will follow the destruction of Christianity and atheism, both conquered and exterminated at the same time.”

Since the terrorist attacks of Sept 11, 2001, world events in the Middle East show a growing unrest and instability between Jews and Arabs. This is completely in line with the call for a Third World War to be fought between the two, and their allies on both sides. This Third World War is still to come, and recent events show us that it is not far off.

Notice the quotes attributed to Carr, who in turn is supposedly citing Pike verbatim. Although there is no citation from Haupt, e.g. book and page number, it was pretty easy to track down from where it had originated. “The First World War must…,” “The Second World War must…,” and “The Third World War must…,” is a paraphrased excerpt from William Guy Carr’s book, Pawns in the Game, pp. xv-xvi (a reprint of the 1958 edition). Only Carr doesn’t use quotes to signal a direct quote from the letter, as Haupt had deemed necessary to insert all by himself. The former does indeed claim that three world wars was prophesied in the letter, but he doesn’t actually go so far as to put quotations around it so as to definitively attribute those specific words as occurring verbatim in said letter.

Carr maintains a curious middle ground. Observe the following:

Between 1859, and 1871, he worked out the details of a military blue-print, for three world wars, and three major revolutions which he considered would further the conspiracy to its final stage during the twentieth century.

[…] Pike’s plan was as simple as it has proved effective. He required that Communism, Naziism, Political Zionism, and other International movements be organized and used to foment the three global wars and three major revolutions. The first world war was to be fought so as to enable the Illuminati to overthrow the powers of the Tzars in Russia and turn that country into the stronghold of Atheistic-Communism. The differences stirred up by agentur of the Illuminati between the British and German Empires were to be used to foment this war. After the war ended, Communism was to be built up and used to destroy other governments and weaken religions.

World War Two, was to be fomented by using the differences between Fascists and Political Zionists. This war was to be fought so that Naziism would be destroyed and the power of Political Zionism increased so that the sovereign state of Israel could be established in Palestine. During world war two International Communism was to be built up until it equalled in strength that of united Christendom. At this point it was to be contained and kept in check until required for the final social cataclysm. Can any informed person deny Roosevelt and Churchill did not put this policy into effect?

World War Three is to be fomented by using the differences the agentur of the Illuminati stir up between Political Zionists and the leaders of the Moslem world. The war is to be directed in such a manner that Islam (the Arab World including Mohammedanism) and Political Zionism (including the State of Israel) will destroy themselves while at the same time the remaining nations, once more divided against each other on this issue, will be forced to fight themselves into a state of complete exhaustion physically, mentally, spiritually and economically. Can any unbiased and reasoning person deny that the intrigue now going on in the Near, Middle, and Far East isn’t designed to accomplish this devilish purpose?

As is obvious, these are not direct quotes, rather only a claim. And there is no citation for these revelations, either: When exactly did Pike supposedly lay out his master conspiracy? And where can one read the complete unedited original?

On the next page, however, there is a small quote from the mysterious alleged letter dated August 15, 1871:

On August 15, 1871, Pike told Mazzini that after World War Three is ended, those who aspire to undisputed world domination will provoke the greatest social cataclysm the world has ever known. We quote his own written words (taken from the letter catalogued in the British Museum Library, London, Eng.):

“We shall unleash the Nihilists and Atheists, and we shall provoke a formidable social cataclysm which in all its horror will show clearly to the nations the effect of absolute atheism, origin of savagery and of the most bloody turmoil. Then everywhere, the citizens, obliged to defend themselves against the world minority of revolutionaries, will exterminate those destroyers of civilization, and the multitude, disillusioned with Christianity, whose deistic spirits will be from that moment without compass (direction), anxious for an ideal, but without knowing where to render its adoration, will receive the true light through the universal manifestation of the pure doctrine of Lucifer brought finally out in the public view, a manifestation which will result from the general reactionary movement which will follow the destruction of Christianity and Atheism, both conquered and exterminated at the same time.”

Here we have a direct quote from the elusive letter, and again, with no precise citation – only the assertion that it is held in the British Museum.

Carr, Rodriguez and “The Cause of World Unrest”

Apparently, Carr was called out on this, for in his last book published posthumously in 1959, he finally reveals his source:

Pike explained what is intended to happen in a letter he wrote to his director (Mazzini) of the W.R.M. August 15, 1871. This letter is quoted elsewhere. It is catalogued in the Library of the British Museum, London, England [9] and has been quoted from and referred to by dozens of authorities and students of the W.R.M., including Cardinal Rodriguez of Chile. (See page 118 of The Mysteries of Freemasonry Unveiled, 1925. English translation, 1957.)

[…]

[9] The Keeper of manuscripts recently informed the author that this letter is NOT catalogued in the British Museum Library. It seems strange that a man of Cardinal Rodriguez’s knowledge should have said it WAS in 1925.

– William Guy Carr, Satan: Prince of this World (pdf scan by Haupt), p. 22

Let’s consult Cardinal Rodriguez’ book to pin it down further. Here are the relevant passages:

In The Cause, the work of Monseigneur Jouin, concerning the Protocols, and the work of Witchl, are given the names of all the Jews who have been in the government of the Soviet and thus it is shown that the Jews are realizing their plan, for which they counted on Masonry as a blind and servile instrument.

The other indication of the participation of Masonry in the Revolution and the present upheaval in Russia is a letter in Le Diable au XIXème Siècle (1896), attributed to Albert Pike, “Sovereign Pontiff of Universal Masonry”, assisted by ten Ancients of the Grand Lodge of the Supreme Orient of Charleston to the very illustrious Joseph Mazzini, dated August 15, 1871. What I have said of the document previously mentioned, The Protocols, I say of this one: Authentic or not, the letter had been published long enough before the events, not to be an invention accommodated post factum. Its publication is catalogued in the British Museum of London and the plan attributed to Pike is also in part in Le Palladisme Of Margiotta, p. 186 published in 1895. It is a plan to destroy Catholicism, to throw the Pope out of Italy and force him to seek refuge in Russia; and then, when the autocratic empire had become the citadel of Papal Christianity, “we,” continues the author of the letter, “shall unleash the Nihilists and Atheists, and we shall provoke a formidable social cataclysm which in all its horror will show clearly to the nations the effect of absolute atheism, origin of savagery and of the most bloody turmoil. Then everywhere, the citizens, obliged to defend themselves against the world minority of revolutionaries, will exterminate those destroyers of civilization, and the multitude, disillusioned with Christianity, whose deistic spirits will be from that moment without compass, anxious for an ideal, but without knowing where to render its adoration, will receive the true light through the universal manifestation of the pure doctrine of Lucifer brought finally out in the public view, a manifestation which will result from the general reactionary movement which will follow the destruction of Christianity and atheism, both conquered and exterminated at the same time” (The Cause, p. 77 ff).

– The Cardinal of Chile, The Mysteries of Freemasonry Unveiled (Christian Book Club of America, 2006), pp. 115-6 [fig 6 and 7]

I was pleased with the discovery that Cardinal Rodriguez provided adequate citation for further investigation. Some of the new information gleaned includes the fact, that 1) Carr quoted directly from Rodriguez’ meagre one-paragraph excerpt; 2) the latter mentioned nothing about a prediction of three world wars; and that 3) Carr was confused about exactly what was “catalogued” in the British Museum. Furthermore, it appears that Cardinal Rodriguez was alluding to Le Diable au XIXème Siècle — “its publication” — as being catalogued at the Museum, not the letter itself (as our next source confirms).

At any rate, Le Diable au XIXème Siècle [The Devil in the 19th-century] is the source of the alleged letter. Unfortunately, however, Rodriguez omits which volume – Bataille (Dr.), Le Diable au XIXe siècle, 2 volumes (Delhomme & Briguet: Paris-Lyon, 1892-1894), 1800pp – let alone which page or pages. Therefore, I had no other choice but to consult the secondary work called “The Cause.”

On p. 8 in the aforementioned edition of The Mysteries of Freemasonry Unveiled, one encounters a helpful section entitled “References and Abbreviations.” Item number 19, reads: “The Cause of World Unrest 1920”[fig 8].

Putting it mildly, both Carr and Rodriguez were hardly amicable toward the Jews, and the next source is no exception to the rule.

The Cause of World Unrest is a compilation of articles that appeared in the London Morning Post in July of 1920, in the wake of the Bolshevik revolution and the publication of the Protocols of the Learned Elders of Zion. Whoever penned these texts wished to remain anonymous. Certain researchers, however, conclude that its main authors were Ian Colvin, editor of the paper H. A. Gwynne, and Nesta Webster.

The original 1920 copy of the book, as well as a recent reprint of it (precise date not specified), reveals that Cardinal Rodriguez was incorrect about the page numbers. The information on the Pike letter is found from page 50 to 52, as opposed to “77 ff”:

In the year 1896 there appeared in Paris a curious publication called Le Diable au XIXe Siècle. It was an attack upon Freemasonry, and came out in parts, illustrated with grotesque and repulsive engravings. The name on the title-page is Dr. Bataille, but it is stated in the British Museum Catalogue that the real authors were Gabriel Jogand-Pagès and Charles Hacks [TM: this explains the “catalogued” business]. The book, with evident knowledge and a show of authority, set out to trace the connection between Freemasonry and revolutions, but its sensationalism and the extremely doubtful character of some of the documents produced brought it into disrepute. It is now forgotten, and yet it contains a good deal that can be verified from other sources, and some things also which seem to be verified by recent events. In particular there is a letter – or an alleged letter – said to have been written by Albert Pike, the “Sovereign Pontiff of Universal Freemasonry,” assisted by the Ten Ancients of the Grand Lodge of the Supreme Orient at Charleston, to “the very illustrious brother” Giuseppe Mazzini. This letter is dated (in Masonic style) August 15, 1871, and sets forth an anti-clerical policy which Mazzini is to follow in Italy. The measures proposed, including secular education, the expulsion of the religious orders, and so forth, need not detain us. What is to our purpose occurs towards the end of the letter, on page 605 (vol. ii.). The writer explains that owing to the working out of this policy the Pope may be driven at some future time out of Italy, and that established religion will then find its last refuge in Russia. And the letter proceeds:

“That is why, when the autocratic Empire of Russia will have become the citadel of Papal Christianity (adonaïsme papiste), we shall unchain the revolutionary Nihilists and Atheists, and we shall provoke a formidable social cataclysm, which will demonstrate clearly to the nations, in all its horror, the effect of absolute unbelief, mother of savagery and of the most bloody disorder. Then, everywhere, the citizens, obliged to defend themselves against the mad minority of revolutionaries, will exterminate these destroyers of civilization, and the multitude, disillusioned of Christianity, whose deist soul will up to that moment be without compass, thirsting for an ideal, but not knowing where to bestow their worship, will receive the True Light, by the universal manifestation of the pure Luciferian doctrine, at last made public, a manifestation which will arise from the general movement of reaction following the destruction of Atheism and Christianity, both at the same time vanquished and exterminated.”

Now this letter is at least as old as 1896 (if it is a forgery); if it is genuine, it is as old as 1871. It must therefore be considered remarkable, whether as a forgery or as a genuine document. For it predicts what has happened in Russia, and it claims for its authors that they were preparing to bring about what has happened.

Now we’re getting somewhere. The original book, volume, and page number for the letter has finally been identified.

We’ll look at the actual “letter” below. For now, however, it will suffice to comment on two things: 1) the confusion over a catalogue in the British Museum has been solved; and 2) the “Nihilists and Atheists” quotes are nearly identical translations from Carr to Rodriguez to the “anonymous” author in The Cause. (There are a few minor discrepancies, but this is surely due to Rodriguez’s book being translated from Spanish to English.)

“The Cause” (1920)

Rodriguez (1957 English edition)

“shall unchain the revolutionary Nihilists and Atheists, and we shall provoke a formidable social cataclysm, which will demonstrate clearly to the nations, in all its horror, the effect of absolute unbelief, mother of savagery and of the most bloody disorder. Then, everywhere, the citizens, obliged to defend themselves against the mad minority of revolutionaries, will exterminate these destroyers of civilization, and the multitude, disillusioned of Christianity, whose deist soul will up to that moment be without compass, thirsting for an ideal, but not knowing where to bestow their worship, will receive the True Light, by the universal manifestation of the pure Luciferian doctrine, at last made public, a manifestation which will arise from the general movement of reaction following the destruction of Atheism and Christianity, both at the same time vanquished and exterminated.”

“shall unleash the Nihilists and Atheists, and we shall provoke a formidable social cataclysm which in all its horror will show clearly to the nations the effect of absolute atheism, origin of savagery and of the most bloody turmoil. Then everywhere, the citizens, obliged to defend themselves against the world minority of revolutionaries, will exterminate those destroyers of civilization, and the multitude, disillusioned with Christianity, whose deistic spirits will be from that moment without compass , anxious for an ideal, but without knowing where to render its adoration, will receive the true light through the universal manifestation of the pure doctrine of Lucifer brought finally out in the public view, a manifestation which will result from the general reactionary movement which will follow the destruction of Christianity and atheism, both conquered and exterminated at the same time”

Carr (1958 edition)

“shall unleash the Nihilists and Atheists, and we shall provoke a formidable social cataclysm which in all its horror will show clearly to the nations the effect of absolute atheism, origin of savagery and of the most bloody turmoil. Then everywhere, the citizens, obliged to defend themselves against the world minority of revolutionaries, will exterminate those destroyers of civilization, and the multitude, disillusioned with Christianity, whose deistic spirits will be from that moment without compass (direction), anxious for an ideal, but without knowing where to render its adoration, will receive the true light through the universal manifestation of the pure doctrine of Lucifer brought finally out in the public view, a manifestation which will result from the general reactionary movement which will follow the destruction of Christianity and Atheism, both conquered and exterminated at the same time.”

“LE PLAN DES CHEFS SECRETS”

It was precisely 2 years ago that I had acquired the last source in the trail. I don’t usually do the inter-library thing: they give me the run-around, and endless excuses. I purchase books online, mostly through second hand dealers, and Le Diable au XIXème Siècle — any volume; any edition — was a little too rich for my blood.

Google Books has indeed scanned the volume, searchable though presented only in snippet view. At one point I became aware of Michel Berchmans’ Le Diable au XIXe siècle: La mystification du Dr Bataille [The Devil in the 19th-century: The Hoax of Dr. Bataille] (Marabout, 1973), which includes lengthy excerpts along with a critical introduction. After getting the book into my hands, however, I quickly found that the famed 1871 letter from Pike to Mazzini was unfortunately overlooked.

Then, a few weeks ago, I had an idea. What if I type in “15 août 1871” in the snippet search just get a semblance of what page 605 of the volume really contains? Sure enough, it was there. And from that tiny snippet view, I gleaned an entire sentence: “15 août 1871, ère vulgaire.”

You can probably figure out what my next step was. I googled it in the hopes that someone, somewhere – surely by now – must have transcribed and posted portions, or hopefully the entire alleged letter.

Exceeding thanks therefore goes to “Hercule” — at a Rennes-le-Château research forum of all places! — who, after receiving it in an email, posted the entire chapter found in Le Diable, v. II, that pertains to the 1871 Pike/Mazzini exchange.

I quickly snatched up the text, consolidated it, and compared it sentence by sentence in the search box provided at the Google book scan. It was a literal transcription.

Let’s proceed then, with a translation of the twelve pages in question before remarking on the merits or validity of its contents or lack thereof.

“The Plan of the Secret Chiefs”

At the beginning of August 1871, that is to say less than a year after the establishment of Palladism (Supreme Rite), the “learned Luciferian Pontiff” Albert Pike received an important letter from Mazzini. The political action leader for Universal Freemasonry invited the supreme dogmatic leader of the sect to draw up a clear plan with a view toward the destruction of Roman Catholicism.

“The unity of Italy, he said, was never considered a goal, rather a means.”

In the solemn hours, Albert Pike assembles his ten advisers, members of the Most Serene Grand College of Emerited Masons, and submitted for their consideration the question raised by the very illustrious brother Giuseppe Mazzini.

This meeting of the eleven highest lumières of the infernal sect, this evil cabal which lasted seven days (from August 9th to 15th), after careful [p. 595] deliberation, inspired no doubt by Satan himself, left the following document (translated from the original Latin text):

“The Serene Grand College of Emerited Masons, convened under the chairmanship of the Most Illustrious, Most Powerful and Most Divinely Enlightened Brother LIMMUD-ENSOPH, Custodial Grand Master of the Sacred Palladium, Sovereign Pontiff of Universal Freemasonry, received with respect the Noble and Dignified Arch from the most illustrious, Most Powerful and Most Enlightened Brother EMOUNAH-SHEMED, Head of Political Action, Great Dictator and President of the Supreme Executive Directorate, dated the first day of the Moon Ab, eighteenth day of the fifth month of the year of the True Light 000871, and under the eye of the Almighty Divine Master EXCELSUS EXCELSIOR, all things considered, exposed and discussed issues of supreme interest, and after deliberation, has determined the legitimate requirements that today will become law.

“Rihab Sabba, Ahta Ahtnanoc Malog Hcsorem, Lucifer. Alleluia!”

“The destruction of feeble Catholicism, cannot be accomplished all at once, and erecting good Catholicism also requires a lot of labour, working in tandem, which should be pursued simultaneously, so that, when the temple of Adonai, undermined on all sides, is ready to collapse in total ruin, the same impulse that annihilates will discover the temple, hitherto hidden from our Divine Master, properly prepared in the eyes of mankind.

“God-King Lucifer will have the whole world consecrated and worshipping him; his religion will therefore truly be Catholic.

“The title of Catholic does not, in fact, belong to Roman superstition. Through revelation, it is certain that its number will never reach, at its apogee, a quarter of the world’s population; it is written in The Book of the Heavens. On the other hand, the religion of Adonai achieved that domination, and it is obvious that she is declining.

“It is necessary that we consider the religious situation of humanity, if we want to safely proceed with the work of twice-over destroying the temple of Adonai and building the temple of Lucifer. This preliminary look will give us courage and hope in the realization of our divine plight; for we show that the future is ours, and the title Catholics is reserved for ourselves. [p. 596]

“One billion, four hundred million inhabitants, this is the population of the globe. Of these, Roman Catholicism has only two hundred and ten million followers.

“However, we must classify religious followers by groups.

“The Christian group is to be subdivided as follows: Roman Catholics, two hundred and ten million; Protestants, one hundred and twenty million; Orthodox, whom the pope of superstition called schismatics, eighty million.

“The Indian group is subdivided as follows: Buddhists, four hundred and twenty million; Brahmanists, one hundred and sixty million.

“We must put aside for the Mohammedans, two hundred million.

“Observe that the truth is known to the priests of Vedism (Indian Group), and the Mohammedans, without knowing the truth, have had a large number of their priests inspired by it.

“Two hundred and thirty-three million idolaters, fetishists or worshipers of various idols, will disappear along with civilization, not individually but as religionists. The Roman Catholic missionaries want to win them over; yet it will be Roman Catholicism itself that disappears even before it attempts the conquest in a meaningful way.

“The Jewish religion has seven million adherents; this small group has no tendency toward conversion to Roman Catholicism; revelation has promised it to us.

“Finally, statisticians estimate that twenty-eight million deistic freethinkers are scattered throughout the globe, while atheists have two million. All others are mostly defectors from other Christian groups.

“But it is not appropriate to consider the whole Christian group as being alienated from true light to the same degree. Protestantism, its various factions, except a tiny minority, are composed of followers of reason, who understand and continuously seek truth, and, therefore, find it; is from them that we find the most numerous followers of the God-Good. On the other hand, the Orthodox schismatics fell prey to the promised Evil-God, as written in the Book of the Heavens. But when Orthodoxy is reunited with Roman Catholicism, they number less than three hundred million adherents.

“The conversion of Protestants to the Temple of True Light will be gradual, sayeth the revelation; the fate of the Mohammedans will be entirely determined by a large and unexpected event occurring under the sixth sovereign pontificate of good Catholicism. It will follow from this that – far from being doomed to the cursed darkness of superstition – three hundred twenty million souls will be enlightened.

“According to the revelation, Roman Catholicism will always be in decline; [p. 597] either desertions or conquest of souls will increase the number of free-thinking deists, and we know that they are in a state of transition while we are finally promised.

“On the other hand, we needn’t worry about transitioning the state of the Indian group, for its priests already possess true light.

“Therefore, at the appointed hour in the Book of the Heavens, that is to say, when Roman Catholicism reaches its maximum number of followers through by uniting with Orthodoxy or schismatics, more than one billion Luciferian Catholics will be found in opposition.

“Consequently, the issue boils down to this: we must be ready when we find ourselves a billion or more, finally with our banners flying high, producing an explosion that will topple the Temple of Adonai; so, in other words, superstition should be weakened and ruined, so much so that its followers will themselves merge into our ranks, – we are promised that dazzling miracles will open their eyes – and that, if at that time some obstinate priests are left still insisting upon preaching the [word of the] Evil-God, their extermination can be accomplished without difficulty.

“How, then, should this unavoidable end-date, be directed and arrived at gradually and peacefully?

“To speak here of the Christian group, tactics will vary as we maneuver in countries dominated by the Roman Catholic element or in countries dominated by the Protestant element.

“The main work is one that aims to transform the Roman Catholics into freethinking Deists. We need to apply all our strength, and with that, persuade many. Experience has shown that too-few are the privileged souls who leap from the abyss of obscurantism to take their bold flight into the ether of divine and invigorating light.

“For this he must conquer the seats of government of his people; this is everything. Whether in the republics or the monarchist states, we must enact laws, destroying everywhere the influence of the priests of the superstition and their auxiliaries, the monks who mingle with the people and the nuns who maintain the soul in error, by the cloak of false charity. It will, first, be through the press that we inspire writers, demonstrating how the almsgiving of the Evil-Catholics is degrading to human dignity, and this by showing that the individual has the right to well-being through social reforms and not by routine charity; and, secondly, that for parliaments or legislatures to disperse unpopular congregations, to skillfully destroy those prejudices [p. 598] requires still, in a word, first the removal of every monk or nun.

“In the intellectual sphere, especially, the neutrality of the public schools must be secured so that it is no longer pervaded by priests, nor any of their agents; then, early in the stages of neutralization, we divert any thoughts the parents may have to give their children a Roman Catholic education outside of the neutralized schools. Indeed, keeping new generations from having their intelligence obliterated by the lies of evil dogma is crucial. But at the same time we must take serious steps to ensure that formal education is neutral and does not fall into atheism; neutrality is sufficient, that is to say the suppression of any tendency to insinuate young minds into the false dogma of adonaites. In fact, their exists in the human soul an innate sense that pushes the individual toward a divine ideal, which makes him instinctively understand the existence of a Supreme Being, the supernatural factor, the organizer and driving force of the universe. We’ll let this sentiment develop freely, that is to say, without criminally directing them against superstition, the religion of the Evil-God, but imported from abroad in the half-light of a vague deism, but uncontaminated by the pestiferous breath of Roman Catholicism; and when the hour of the Good-God manifests, truly worthy of humanity’s worship, the children turned men will address their aspirations to Him; and so, by removing the childhood and adolescence of Adonai, we devote ourselves to Lucifer, simply by natural inclination alone, and the maturity of new generations. It is therefore absolutely necessary that the atheist teacher clearly be removed from school, lest he try to introduce [his own dogma] after we have already driven out the adonaite priest, and the instruction books, placed in the hands of children after being purged of the lying dogmas of Roman Catholicism, posit, but without precise definition, the existence of a Supreme Being.

“While the new generations haven’t yet been moulded, adonaism must be fought intellectually by all sorts of publications demonstrating how monstrous and ridiculous the idea of the divinity of the priests of superstition is. In this struggle, we must not overlook the pamphlet, satire, and mockery, which affect the masses easier than learned dissertations. We must never forget the good that Voltaire did for our cause, by covering the ridiculousness of Roman Catholicism. But it is not for fun and laughs that we’ve adopted this perfect tactic: in discrediting false doctrines and the cult of the adonaites, we discredit the ministers of this detestable religion; we arrive gradually to the desertion of its churches. [p. 599]

“In effect, we should not rely solely on the outcome of enacted laws; for if we managed to totally deprive the Roman Catholic clergy of state-granted subsidies, they would obtain financial compensation extracted directly from the fanatics wallowing in an incurable credulity. However, by discrediting all the Roman Catholic institutions, it does decrease the number of these unfortunate exploits; it is necessary for individuals with any sense to realize that, recourse to superstition sacraments is ridiculous; in this way, for fear of mockery, they may break the habit of consorting with impostor priests. It is therefore good to give latitude to charlatans of the worst sort, the dregs of false prophets, whose business is an obvious scam; inspired by us, the press will make comparisons between them and the priests of Adonai, confounding the two with reprobation and ridicule.

“On the other hand, through legislative means or otherwise, recruitment of the Roman Catholic priesthood must be restrained. It would be beneficial to give young priests actual knowledge of social life, falsely portrayed by their teachers. It will be necessary to have confident woman who devote themselves to the benefits and initiations of the Good-God. The results obtained in this way will be fruitful; for one of two things will happen: either the adonaite priest, once he has tasted the sweet joys papal barbarism forbade, will resign from the clergy, thus demonstrating to the public that nature condemns, absolutely, systematic celibacy; or he will remain in the priestly caste, secretly with us, not as an ally but entirely ours, rendering the most valuable service toward undermining the Temple of Adonai.

“In any case and in all circumstances, we must create a vacuum around the Roman Catholic priest, and it is also necessary that the clergy, after becoming more and more despised, hated, and scorned, be diminished in number, and to stop at nothing to obtain this result. First, we increase societies, circles, non-religious festivals, etc., for the pleasure of urban and rural townspeople; and secondly, we advocate boldly and everywhere, like a doctrine, the anti-Roman Catholic motto: ‘No priest at birth! no priest at marriage! no priest at death!’ while favouring the creation of any association established in solidarity with this program.

“Finally, we should point out, scandalously, ready-made facts authored by a priest of Adonai, which might be liable to discredit the priesthood; that is, a fact not detrimental by itself, but in as much as it [p. 600] contradicts the cruel law of chastity so pretentiously asserted by Papism, who claim their clergy are above nature, and in this case, it will be advisable not to make a noise about it unless the offender is considered incapable of becoming our secret agent.

“And that will be the way forward throughout all countries of the Christian group.

“In particular, we must pause a moment and concentrate on Italy. Here, the Freemasons, while following to the letter the policies we have outlined, will have a duty to work tirelessly with the greatest zeal, to repeal the law that passed three months ago on which the Chief of Political Action has called our attention. We begin by attacking at the outset the system of two sovereignties in one country, in one capital; we will highlight the difficulties resulting from a dual diplomatic corps, half of which is the Italian crown in a state of permanent conspiracy against their own homeland. This campaign of Italian masonry should be supported by masons of other countries through an ambassador to the superstitious Roman Pontiff; to file motions for the removal of their embassies; and on this point, we would emphasize the fact that the existence of said papal embassies depends only on the magnanimity of the Italians who were willing to recognize a cult leader, now without a land, and the nature and prerogatives of the sovereign. Then we attack the imprudently granted sanctity of the ecclesiastical congregations forming the high spiritual administration of the Supreme Headquarters of the Roman superstition. It will provoke conflicts between the political authorities and any leaders under papal authority. We will spare no opportunity to arouse the populace against this person, even of the occupant of that cursed seat, so that, if he dared leave the Vatican, there would be unrest. It should become the habitual public opinion of Italy to regard as a dangerous embarrassment the presence of the Pope in their country.

“When public opinion is ripe to accept the Pope’s expulsion passed by a parliament comprised of a Masonic majority, we should propose a bill akin to something like following:

“Art. 1 – Italy recognizes no state religion.

“Art. 2 – To continue to have the right to exercise its cult, the Christian Church, formerly known as Catholic, shall be in Italy exclusively Italian. [p. 601]

“Art. 3 – Its bishops are authorized to meet in the national council and appoint someone as the Patriarch for the Peninsula, Sardinia and Sicily.

“Art. 4 – The present pope is eligible for this dignity, provided he relinquishes all superior authority other than the Church in Italy.

“Art. 5 – The Christian Patriarch of Italy has no sovereign status, and no foreign ambassador can be accredited to him.

“Art. 6 – The Sacred College of Cardinals will cease to exist, and the Congregations called the Holy Office, the Council, of Propaganda, of Rites, of the Index, of Indulgences, and, in a word, all ecclesiastically superior Church committees with a view toward universal administration, either spiritual or financial.

“Art. 7 – The titles of Cardinal and Archbishop are abolished; vis-à-vis the civil power, all the Bishops are on an equal footing, with the exception of the Patriarch, who is the first Italian bishop and who, in official state ceremonies, takes his place among the Presidents of Supreme Courts and the President of the Court of Auditors.

“Art. 8 – Each bishop administers his diocese under state control; [p. 602] the Bishops must refer to the Patriarch in issues purely of a spiritual or liturgical nature.

“Art. 9 – Any act of the Patriarch, committed in violation of the present law, will result in immediate dismissal and banishment.

“Art. 10 – Every bishop who is found complicit in violating the law with the Patriarch, shall incur a penalty of imprisonment in a fortress, five to ten years, and is also humiliated in the presence of people assembled on the public square or the courts of the cathedral of his diocese.

“Art. 11 – The Central Commission of Cults, composed of the secular members of the diocese, and whose members are appointed by the Parliament, centralize all reports of the civilian authorities on administrative actions or other documents related to the dioceses and form a permanent Superior Council to settle all disputes between the bishops and their ecclesiastical subordinates, except for spiritual or liturgical matters which are subject to the exclusive supreme jurisdiction of the Patriarch.

“Art. 12 – Through secret ballot, Priests will be elected by the faithful who remain irremovably attached to their parish; current priests, declared eligible by this Act, though not imposed on the faithful, will submit within six months from this date a confirmation of their position and title, voted on freely by their parishioners.

“Art. 13 – The Bishops are appointed by the Patriarch upon presentation of the government’s chosen three candidates; nevertheless, the present bishops who accept this religious regulation, will remain in office; those bishops not accepted will remain simple priests, and will be provided with a rural parish in the vicariate by his successor as head of the diocese, but his own vicarage will forever remain out of reach.

“At the same time the bill is tabled at the Chamber of Deputies of Italy, a copy, which would have previously been sent to all infected countries of Roman Catholicism, and to newspapers written by us, will soon be published everywhere, and accompanied by high praise. A concert of articles will celebrate the wisdom of Italian liberals, crediting them for having found a good solution to the religious question. We’ll attempt to illuminate the absurdity of the situation up until now: how wrong it is for Italy to have one of its citizens conspiring against the homeland, while at the same time the holdout is the head of a religion claiming to be universal and professing to place himself above the country’s legitimate authorities; how wrong it is for other nations to have allowed a veritable state within a state, with an entire staff of priests who are in reality servants of a foreign sovereign. Newspapers will call upon progressive deputies from other countries to promptly submit a similar bill, externally emancipating them from the national clergy of this cult called catholic, to constitute a liberal priesthood of a religion which the faithful have nothing in common [p. 603] with those practicing the same creed in another country. Great unrest will occur in various countries with numerous followers of Roman Catholicism, and, by legal means, through a general agreement emanating from Freemasonry, we proceed with the disintegration of the religion of evil.

“These events will not be fulfilled in twenty nor thirty years; we bring it about when Roman Catholicism has been totally discredited, when old women and a few incurable fools are its sole supporters, and when we have secretly acquired a significant portion of its clergy. When circumstances are favourable, due to increased legal restrictions in one country or another, having already completely abolished the finances of the cults and reduced the income of the priests of superstition to mere offerings of the faithful, in this case, it will be useful in such country or countries, to restore state funding to members of various clergy, even to the point of being generous toward the priests of Adonaism who accept the new situation. We’ll then proclaim loudly that the State, trying to protect religion at the moment when it ceases to be an excuse for a foreign conspiracy, only serves to magnify the sacerdotal body. No means should be overlooked to ensure the disintegration of the religion of Adonai and to weaken its international character. This, in effect, is what will empower us to extirpate it completely and permanently. Thus it is not possible to be overzealous in the struggle to achieve this important result, without ever being discouraged by the difficulties of the enterprise.

“Moreover, we must nurture in our hearts not only hope, but even the certainty that the successful disintegration of adonaism is not a chimera; for it is promised to us by the revelation in the book On Redemption in the Apadno.

“It is also said that the Pope of superstition, based in Rome at the time of its disntegration, refused to acquiesce to the new situation in his Church; and he will launch his now powerless thunderbolts against governments participating in this great work of social salvation. In those days a multitude of priests in various countries will abandon the church, owing to the fact that many have already been won over [to our cause]; and having been expelled in Italy, the Papacy will be cursed, wandering, and forced to fall into darkness; because governments will impose harsh sentences against those who show continued support and who conspire with her.

“But it is also written that, the Wandering Pope, pastor of a scattered flock, [p. 604] the helpless vessel of Cephas [Peter], and sixth successor of human self-pride, which collapsed under the temporal power of the infamous pontificate, will be saved, after numerous expulsions, by the Slavic autocrats who will bestow upon him great honours. Adonaism will then attempt to reconstitute itself; the Wandering Pope being close to death in Russia, with the imperial autocrat prostrate at his feet, the nations will convert to orthodoxy, that is to say, the schismatic Eastern religion, rallying quickly to the cause of old Roman Catholicism purged from Italy. On his deathbed, the Wandering Pope will be happy to witness these new believers replace the Westerners who had only recently separated from his church, and within the nations who’ve taken part in the disintegration of adonaism, some of the faithful remain, hidden from view so as to engage in the condemned practices of superstition; before dying, he will convene an Episcopate with the bishops of the Eastern schismatics, and establish among them Greek and Russian Cardinals. His successor will be a Slav; the seat of the adonaite Papacy will be established in the northern city of Pierre, with the intention of reconquering Rome. But it will be in vain that the imperial autocrat, in the hopes of extending his rule, becomes a crusader for adonaism; his efforts unsuccessful, the former Roman Church will remain fragmented in the nations of Western Europe. Thus, Russia is the last refuge and bastion of adonaism claiming to be catholic.

“In Western nations, once the new religious regime will be legalized, it will drastically suppress these dangerous propagandists who call themselves missionaries and preach to our brothers in Asia, and among the heathen in Africa and Oceania whom we must convert, carrying falsehoods and poisonous sermons. Governments shall prohibit, under severe penalties, these detestable emigrations, which are liable to provoke incessant conflicts with Asian nations, whose faith has become so perfectly illuminated by the efforts of the wise Tibetan priests, united with our auxiliary masonry in India and China, and deserving of respect. And without waiting for the appointed time of these events, every Mason has a duty to fight, through the pen and the word, the so-called Catholic missionaries, and trumpet throughout the secular world contempt and inextinguishable hatred. These missionaries are our mortal enemies. Any Freemason, who refuses to fight, will be deemed a traitor; whosoever joins them or supports such action with public praise, will be beaten to death.

“Finally, it is useful to maintain in the lower classes of any nation, the ferment of revolutionary ideas, even those socialists prone to extreme violence. Atheism is bad in itself and to hijack its true purpose and work toward humane antichristian restoration, [p. 605] we need to channel it and mix it with the most exaggerated social doctrines, which are destined for failure, occasioned by a momentary disruption, immediately followed by an energetic reaction.

“In the last stage, however, first we discredit the superstitious theory of divinity in such a way that those steeped in adonaisme detach gradually and eventually no longer believe at all, the last priests of adonaisme eroded and fragmented will be entirely won in the era of the new religious regime, which will be a state of transition, like free-thinking deism; secondly, we’ll take care to not suddenly wrest from the multitudes the belief in the supernatural God, but, at every opportunity, we’ll remain content to proclaim the existence of a Supreme Being, without announcing publicly yet our traditions and our mystic revelations. So sayeth the God-Good.

“Therefore, when the autocratic Empire of Russia will become the citadel of papist adonaism, we shall unleash the revolutionary nihilists and atheists, and provoke a formidable social cataclysm, which will demonstrate clearly to the nations, in all its horror, the effect of absolute unbelief, mother of savagery and of the bloodiest disorder. Then everywhere, the citizens, obliged to defend themselves against the mad minority of revolutionaries, will exterminate these destroyers of civilization; and the countless disillusioned adonaites, whose deist soul have up until that time remained without a compass, thirsting for an ideal, but not knowing which God is worthy of tribute, will receive the True Light, by the universal manifestation of the pure Luciferian doctrine, at last made public, an event that will arise from a reactionary movement following the destruction of atheism and adonaism, together at the same time vanquished and exterminated.

“The birth of the religion of the Good-God Lucifer, established and unrivalled on the earth, cannot be an instantaneous operation, neither in one year nor a century. A lasting achievement is that which is created by slow progression. The nineteenth century saw the conception of true and good Catholicism; the twentieth century will be the century of gestation, and climaxing with parturition at a fixed end in the Book of the Heavens (September 29th, 1996 AD when completed).

“Written and delivered under the Solemn Arch, and signed at the foot of the Sacred Palladium, by the Sovereign Pontiff of Universal Freemasonry, and by the ten elders who comprise the Most Serene Grand College of Emerited Masons, at the Supreme Orient of Charleston, in the cherished valley of the Divine Master, the 29th and last day of the Moon Ab, year 000871 of the True Light (August 15th, 1871, era vulgaris [Vulgar Era])

[p. 606]

This is the secret plan and formula which summarizes the tactics and the aspirations of the Masonic and Luciferian sect.

Is there no better way to conclude than to pronounce the mysterious response of the sacred word of the Knights of Kadosh? “Pharasch-Chol” Everything is explained.

Exactly what William Guy Carr was trying to pull, I’ll never know. If you’ve bared it until the end, perhaps you’re disappointed to have found nothing about a prediction of three world wars, Communism, Nazism and Zionist Illuminati – or anything of the sort. A search through the entire book, utilizing relevant word combinations, turns up nothing either. Instead, what it truly represents is the scurrilous fantasies, and militant anti-Catholicism of its author: the impostor Leo Taxil aka Dr. Bataille, who profited handsomely while having a million laughs at the expense of both Christians and Masons; who confessed that his entirecorpus of anti-Masonic works – spanning twelve years and representing thousands of pages (including the translated excerpt above) – were a complete and utterfraud; a colossal yet ridiculously farcical hoax.

It is enough having shown that the so-called Pike/Mazzini letter came from the Taxil hoax and to have provided a full translation of it. However, if the reader is so inclined, there are plenty of resources to become familiar with allfacets of the Leo Taxil case in the above embedded links.

Taxil benefited from the atmosphere in France at that time, which was indeed rife with anti-clericalism, occultism, and outright Satanism. The poets and authors of Romanticism had also looked upon Satan and Lucifer as a hero, and became more outspoken as anti-clericalism became the norm.

Conservative Christians of all denominations continued to believe in him, but he was also revived by Romantic writers, sometimes as a figure of horror, but more often of sympathy, or even a hero. Romantics who supported popular revolutions from 1789 onward made Satan a symbol of liberty. If revolutions were against kings and priests, Romantics admired Satan as the enemy of the greatest king and Priest of all, Christ himself. Permutations were nearly infinite. In one great poem, Victor Hugo portrays Satan as a lonely hero, cast out from the world, full of love and longing, thrust out beyond the planets and stars into the empty coldness of space. At last he can see only three stars; he strains his wings and courage to reach a refuge, but one by one the stars die out and he is left in utter darkness. For some Romantics, Satan was a redeemer who bought human liberty at the cost of his own ruin.

The late historian of the occult, James Webb, has a detailed chapter on the conditions in France during the period, which is highly recommended: The Occult Underground, “Visions of Heaven and Hell,” (Open Court, 1990), pp. 153-190; there’s also a succinct overview of the Taxil affair, pp. 144-7.

It is only possible to understand the hysteria caused by Taxil’s “revelations” in Germany, France, Italy, and Belgium if we take into account the contemporary political conflicts between church and the state. Taxil’s horror stories were well suited for an era in which people yearned for otherworldly experiences beyond the disenchanted modern world. During the final third of the nineteenth century, European societies vacillated between modern occultism and the belief in miracles, on the one hand, and the belief in Bildung and progress, on the other. Taxil’s writings initially satisfied the needs of anticlerics and subsequently those of the clerics. In this way, he popularized the conflict between liberalism and political Catholicism, appropriating many ideas that had long circulated among the Catholic population about “satanic” lodges, as well as ideas about sinister Catholicism held by the secular and Protestant Bürgertum in Masonic lodges. In occupying both liberal and Catholic positions, Taxil mobilized and intensified the prejudices of both sides. Only in this way can we explain his enormous success, as well as the general popularity of anti-Masonic and anti-Catholic pamphlet literature between the 1880s and the First World War.

“The public made me what I am; the arch-liar of the period,” confessed Taxil, “for when I first commenced to write against the Masons my object was amusement pure and simple. The crimes I laid at their door were so grotesque, so impossible, so widely exaggerated, I thought everybody would see the joke and give me credit for originating a new line of humor. But my readers wouldn’t have it so; they accepted my fables as gospel truth, and the more I lied for the purpose of showing that I lied, the more convinced became they that I was a paragon of veracity.

“Then it dawned upon me that there was lots of money in being a Munchausen of the right kind, and for twelve years I gave it to them hot and strong, but never too hot. When inditing such slush as the story of the devil snake who wrote prophecies on Diana’s back with the end of his tail, I sometimes said to myself: ‘Hold on, you are going too far,’ but I didn’t. My readers even took kindly to the yarn of the devil who, in order to marry a Mason, transformed himself into a crocodile, and, despite the masquerade, played the piano wonderfully well.

“One day when lecturing at Lille, I told my audience that I had just had an apparition of Nautilus, the most daring affront on human credulity I had so far risked. But my hearers never turned a hair. ‘Hear ye, the doctor has seen Nautulius,’ they said with admiring glances. Of course no one had a clear idea of who Nautilus was I didn’t myself but they assumed that he was a devil. Ah, the jolly evenings I spent with my fellow authors hatching out new plots, new, unheard of perversions of truth and logic, each trying to outdo the other in organized mystification. I thought I would kill myself laughing at some of the things proposed, but everything went; there is no limit to human stupidity.”

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“Truth is truth and historical truth goes by evidence it doesn’t go by emotion”

No one, I mean no one can deny the facts and effects of the world wars we have experienced and still witnessing right to the doorstep.

For instance, look at the post-9/11 world scenarios, these can never be a coincidence. I think if someone like William Guy Carr provided a clear explanation as to why these events affecting our lives are sharping up to this point, it is not something to just wave aside and render it as though it’s nothing or false.

Do you think whoever or proponents behind the way our world have been carefully moulded into are following no scripts, or would readily made available these scripts for public consumption? Not when they have hijack and contol the mainstream media, rewriting history and covering their own tracks through their controlled publishing house.

Let us face reality and facts we are in and stop trying to disprove someone’s hard work. No one can deny our world is not shaped in the direction as described in William’s “pawns in the game”.

Your criticism is not constructive nor instructive, however, it is appreciated.

Putting it mildly, you are hardly amicable toward the Catholics, Mr Melanson, as far as I can see.

You say :
« A search through the entire book, utilizing relevant word combinations, turns up nothing either. Instead, what it truly represents is the scurrilous fantasies, and militant anti-Catholicism of its author: the impostor Leo Taxil aka Dr. Bataille, who profited handsomely while having a million laughs at the expense of both Christians and Masons; who confessed that his entire corpus of anti-Masonic works – spanning twelve years and representing thousands of pages (including the translated excerpt above) – were a complete and utter fraud; a colossal yetridiculously farcical hoax..»

Where did you see that the “free-thinker”, i.e. anti-Catholic Jogand-Pagès aka « Léo Taxil » or « Dr Bataille » (the French word meaning Battle), ever had a million of laughs at the expense of « BOTH » Catholics and F∴M∴ ? The only target of his hoax were the Catholics. Are you such an ignorant about French history, or am I ? Please, look at Wikipedia’s article about Jogand-Pagès the liar (https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Leo_Taxil) and if I commit mistake explain it to me. In my country, France, more than one century later the so-called “Léo Taxil” is still the argument used to discredit anyone being, either a little or a lot, critic towards F∴M∴, never the opposite, and it’s yet his use in your article.

After having been sentenced for his hatefull anti-Catholic writings, the “free-thinker” Jogand-Pagès spent twelve years in lying to the expense (even in the full meaning of this word) of the Catholics by telling them stories about the Devil, a creature in which Catholics still believed in the XⅨth century. They believed, what made them ridiculous for Jogand-Pagès.

In WHAT was he anti-mason ? He had been a F∴M∴, for sure, and allegedly was outed of F∴M∴, and whole his adult life was a struggle against Catholicism.

You made an enemy both of F∴M∴ and of Catholicism a man who was an enemy of Catholicism only.

You make, out of his hoax to make believers ridiculous (Catholic believers only, of course), an anti-F∴M∴, but it was used TWELVE years against F∴M∴, and from more than a whole century against any critc toward F∴M∴

By chosing a scholar, you can chose your truth. You don’t chose, not even one name, but you already know the conclusion : how great to be an omniscient !

Perhaps you don’t know that, in History, authority is neither more an argument than in Mathematics. If you believe, for good or bad raisons, that Jogand-Pagès’ anti-Catholic hoax had been nocive to F∴M∴, wht don’t you just give the raisons of what you believe ?

These twelve years had made F∴M∴ disgusting for twelve years to anyone believing the Devil could appear to write with his tail on the back of a woman : none became anti-F∴M∴ because of “Léo Taxil” ‘s lyings.

These twelve years had made, for more than one century, ridiculous anyone being critic toward F∴M∴: Jogand-Pagès is the one shield against any critic toward F∴M∴, and had never been anything else, as far as I can know.

If you know better than I do, please explain me in WHAT his hoax was something else than the continuation of his anti-Catholic struggle.

Because antimasons still quote from the hoax, knowingly pushing falsehoods to sling mud at Freemasonry. Taxil is an industry unto himself.

The only people looking ridiculous are those who continue to quote from his works. You don’t need Taxil to be a legitimate critic of masonry. I’ve written many articles criticizing Freemasonry, all without Taxil or utilizing made up stories. Maybe you should read those.

Not only you ignore the History of France, whereas you pretend to teach about it to me, but you ignore History in general. For example, when cardinal Rodriguez says that in a book « are given the names of all the Jews who have been in the government of the Soviet », the former student in History I am wants to answer it’s wrong : few Jews, or no Jew were members of the Soviet Government. However, it is yet impossible to use this mistake to claim « Putting it mildly, cardinal Rodriguez is hardly amicable toward the Jews » (you don’t came to that point as a conclusion, you make this conclusion without any evidence), for Soviet Union was not leaded by the so-called “Govermment”, but by the Communist Party. Three out of four of his commissars were Jews ; Lenin was Jew by his mother (it is now admitted, whereas for long this information had been given only in anti-Semitic texts, e. g. “Bagatelles pour un massacre”, a satire by Céline) ; the true name of Trotzky was Braunstein (currently transcripted in Bronstein) ; the true name of Zinoviev was Apfelbaum ; the true name of Kamenev was Rosenfeld ; the fathers of the Gulag were Aron Solts, Yakov Rappoport, Lazar Kogan, Matvey Berman, Genrikh Yagoda, Naftaly Frenkel (Solzhenitsyn’s ARCHIPELag GULag, vol. Ⅱ) ; a. s. o.

Please, read yourself : when I write you’re wrong when you say Jogand-Pagès had « a million laughs at the expense of both Christians [more accuratly : Catholics] and Masons », your answer is that you’re right because « the only people looking ridiculous are those who continue to quote from his works », i. e. some anti-F∴M∴！ You’re right, Mr Melanson, but which kind of blindness is yours, if you don’t understand that, in saying that, you’re admitting his hoax never made ridiculous anyone but the anti-F∴M∴ who believed in his hoax, and the very few who still believe in it ?

No, it’s worst than that : even people never quoting “Léo Taxil”, or callimg him a liar (some anti-F∴M∴, some people not anti-F∴M∴ but critic toward F∴M∴, some F∴M∴ critic toward F∴M∴ but still regarding themselves as F∴M∴) are answered, are mafe ridiculous by Taxil’s story of Devil f***ing with Diana Vaughan. His success is magnificient.

Jogand-Pagès said : « Tuons-les par le rire. » It means : « Let’s kill them by laughing. » He made ridiculous the Catholics and anti-F∴M∴ who believed in him. He had no laughs at the expense of F∴M∴ ; if you believe he had, please give me an exemple where he made F∴M∴ ridiculous : he never did, as far as I can know, and I know the History of my country better than you’ll ever know it, or I think so. However, I don’t pretend I am a specialist about the XⅨth century, and the time where I was a student in History is one quarter of century ago, so if you know any evidence showing I’m wrong, please say it, I WANT to know！I really do ！

Yesterday I used your link to have « Le Diable XⅨe siècle » in French, but it only sent me to a site giving adresses to some other books (the kind of books you are told to read when friends want you to become a F∴M∴ : it happened to me when I was a student).

What you didn’t see were 8 more lengthy comments awaiting approval: antisemitic screeds and nonsense, one after the other. That’s why he was banned. This is trolling.

Pre-1891 Taxil was indeed publishing anticatholic/pornographic tracts against catholics and the pope. His audience then were masons and atheists and revolutionaries. They lapped it up with glee just like the catholics did with the anti-masonic screeds. He had a laugh at both factions for kicks and cash.

And Cardinal Rodriguez was indeed “hardly amicable toward the Jews” – about the nicest thing I could have said about his book.

Hi Terry, i don’t know if you are still responding to questions but please can you answer one question. I just want to know if I’ve got the following right. Are you saying that Taxil wrote a book called ‘The Devil in the 19th-century’. In this book Taxil (under the made up name Dr. Bataille) talked about a mason called Pike. Pike is a real man and Mazzini is a real man. In real life Pike may or may not have sent letters to Mazzini. Taxil wrote in his book that Pike wrote a specific letter to Mazzini which contained the words ‘…we shall unleash the revolutionary nihilists and atheists, and provoke a formidable social cataclysm…’ etc etc etc. Taxil only got away with this because Pike had already passed away and couldn’t defend himself. I’m assuming Mazzini must have passed away too, if he is a real person. So Pike never talked about wanting to destroy Catholicism in this specific letter? Is all that correct? Please correct me if I’m wrong. Thank you very much.

Thank you for responding. Some more questions if you don’t mind. So the prediction of a third world war that starts ‘World War Three is to be fomented by using…’ was actually written by Carr in his book Pawns in the Game? Could Pike not have alluded to a third world war in one of his other books or writings? Did you check that? If it is correct that Pike never mentioned a third world war in any of his writings then why do you think Michael Haupt does not correct his website? He must have seen this article. I imagine you and many others must have sent him a link to this article. Have you sent him a link and asked him why he doesnt post a retraction? Thank you very much.

Ok thanks. How do you know he sold it? The site says ‘This site is developed, maintained and funded solely by private, independent individuals…’

Oh wow, is the Haupt you’re talking about the same one as seen here https://uk.linkedin.com/in/michaelhaupt ??? threeworldwars.com says ‘my background is IT and Telecommunications’. So that could be him! That would be weird! If it is him I didn’t expect the maker of the three world wars site to be an international business man extraordinaire! I thought it would be some broke loser who sits alone on a Friday night!

I tried to work out his motive. He says ‘the site is the result of many years (at least 15, but I’ve lost track) of study, research, questioning and personal observances. I have read and summarized countless sources (probably approaching 2,500)’ but then he says ‘Disclaimer: The accuracy of any of the information on any of these pages cannot be guaranteed. You should never accept anything you read or hear as fact until you’ve verified the information for yourself first.’ So that tells me precisely nothing.

He says he believes ‘That resistance is futile and that no effort should be expended in trying to prevent world domination by a few. Instead we should prepare as best we can.’ I don’t agree with that philosophy at all but whatever.

I see he has monitised his site through ads using paydotcom. I looked at his analytics. He makes $42 income a day. He gets 3,741 daily unique visitors. The site is worth $22,680.

Yeah I guess I can’t understand the motive to knowingly deceive people unless you are poor and it makes you a lot of money which in this case, it doesnt. If he is indeed Michael Haupt, international globe trotter and business man extraordinaire then money won’t be a consideration at all.

This is quite a bit of information to take in. So just to clarify. The website threeworldwars.com in an effort to legitimize its own conspiracy theory cited a book written by Carr.

Carr alleged that free masons are a Luciferian order involved in a conspiracy to bring about three world wars culminating in the destruction of Christianity and Atheism which would leave only Luciferianism.

Carr, to back up this claim, cites a letter which he said was written from Pike to Mazzini . He claims the letter is chronicled in the British Museum (later redacted) as well as it was quoted from by other writers (Rodriquez).

Looking into Rodriquez’s writings it was discovered he didn’t actually claim the letter was chronicled at the museum but rather that a publication which cited the letter was. That publication was The Devil in the 19th-century by Dr. Bataille.

Tracking down this publication it does claim the letter was written from Pike to Mazzini and cites the alleged letter in the text. The letter lays out a plot supposedly by the Luciferian freemasons to essentially conquer the world yet makes no mention of “three world wars”.

There is no way to confirm the cited letter’s validity past this publication’s claim it exists because the letter itself is not chronicled anywhere. You also find major publications (The Times) which discuss the Taxil Hoax.

In these publications it is reported a man named Leo Taxil claimed that he, along with others, were the authors of works such as The Devil in the 19th-century and that it was all a huge hoax in which they had fooled everyone.

You therefore concluded that “The Devil in the 19th-century” was a total hoax based on:
A- The existence of the letter in “The Devil in the 19th-century” can’t be validated.
B- Leo Taxil claimed responsibility for the publication and that it was all a very elaborate hoax. His claim was repeated and fully accepted by the media at that time and reported as such in multiple media outlets. The publication was dismissed afterwards as nothing more than being part of Taxil’s elaborate hoax.

I have to ask, considering how the media is used today, is it possible the publication was legitimate and Taxil was used as a means of dismissing it from the public eye or is that an impossibility based on the information you have?

Secondly, even if the publication can be linked to Taxil with certainty as a hoax isn’t it incredible in what it has predicted a full century ahead of it’s time? It claims newspapers will use liberalism as a means of furthering their agenda (which is very much in play now over 100 years later).

It claims not only that Christianity and Islam will essentially destroy each other but also that Catholicism will be pushed out of Rome. Considering all my research into what is happening present day, that is an incredible 100 year old prophecy to have made.

If the west were to have simply gone to war with Islam the entire middle-east would have been completely decimated by the west. Not in line with that prophecy. However, with what is happening in the EU with the migrant crisis we see what will inevitably culminate in the Islamization of Europe.

Simultaneously there is anti-islamic rhetoric permeating throughout the US. Now if Europe converts to Islam and war breaks out that would definitely legitimize the publications claims. Then, to also consider that it is a stated goal of Islam to one day conquer Rome and force out the Catholics. Also to consider the Pope just recently met with the Russian Orthodoxy for the first time in nearly 1000 years. That meeting occured this year, in February I believe.

It is incredible to consider there is truth here and looking at events which are playing out on the world stage today it seems highly plausible.

It even speaks of fostering “revolutionary ideas” in the lower classes and that “we need to channel it and mix it with the most exaggerated social doctrines”. Incredible.

It talks of essentially a social calamity. Look at what is going on in the world today. Gays, Christians, Muslims, Whites, Blacks, Hispanics – practically every group is being polarized against each other via the media.

In all my research I’ve come upon both nonsense and some great revelation and while reading this supposed letter a lot of bells went off for me. If it is a hoax and Taxil was just laughing at everyone then my hat goes off to him because only the adversary himself could have told a more grandiose lie.

Your skepticism stems from the fact that you are not wholly familiar with what the Taxil Hoax was. At the conclusion of this article, rather than recount the story for the reader (who already had to endure an extremely long post), I opted for links and book recommendations to understand what it was, who he was and what he did. I recommend you look into my recommendations, because the full story is quite involved and includes a large cast of characters and claims.

Additionally, here’s what I wrote in my book, Perfectibilists: The 18th Century Bavarian Order of the Illuminati, on the subject:

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The Great Hoaxer — Leo Taxil
Gabriel Antoine Jogand-Pagès (1854-1907) pulled off one of the greatest hoaxes of all time. Born in France, his career began with polemical journalism, anti-Catholic writings, and the editing of a newspaper called L’anti- Clérical [The Anti Clerical]. In the mid-1880s he ostensibly had a change of heart, reconciled with the Church, and began writing anti-Masonic publications. Under the pseudonyms Leo Taxil and Dr. Bataille, Pagès wrote of a Luciferic/Satanic conspiracy at the heart of Masonry.

Among the main characters he introduced was one Diana Vaughan, the high priestess of the “Palladium.” Albert Pike and Giuseppe Mazzini were said to rule over this Satanic rite, and the Luciferic cabal, in control of world wide Freemasonry, resided at Charleston, South Carolina, the seat of the Scottish Rite Southern Jurisdiction in America, where Pike (among others) communed with the Prince of Darkness himself. After the Memoirs of Diana Vaughan were published, Pope Leo XIII himself read it, became a “fan,” and had Cardinal Parrocchi reward her with a papal benediction.

When Vaughan’s fame grew, requests to meet her became overwhelming. Taxil, knowing that the ruse had run its course, acquiesced, and announced that on Easter Sunday, 1897, a lecture would be held with Taxil and Vaughan at the Geographic Society in Paris. Before the assembled gathering, on April 19, Taxil proceeded to give a long speech in which he confessed that the entire series of best-selling publications were a hoax, intended, in the main, to demonstrate the gullibility of Christians: because of preconceived notions about occultism and secret societies, and the principalities of darkness, they could be duped to such an extent as to believe that Pike conferred with Lucifer himself every Friday, at precisely 3:00 p.m.!

The atmosphere in France during the end of the 19th century, offered a “rare opportunity to coin money out of the crass credulity and boundless stupidity of the Catholics,” Pagès would say.

Despite this admission, however, the “revelations” written under the name of Taxil, Vaughan, and Dr. Bataille continued to be offered up as proof of the Luciferic/Satanic world conspiracy of Masonry and, of course, the Illuminati. Chief among the shameless propagators were Lady Queensborough in the 1930s and William Guy Carr in the 1950s. To this day, in books from well-meaning Christian conspiracy theorists, choice excerpts—ultimately from the hoaxed material (by way of Queensborough and Carr)—are reproduced as “evidence.”
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Now for your specific inquiries:

“Tracking down this publication it does claim the letter was written from Pike to Mazzini and cites the alleged letter in the text …”

No. Carr, Rodriguez and the antisemites who wrote “The Cause” do not cite the letter. All of them, only cite one paragraph. That’s it. I translated the full “letter” into English for the first time.

“There is no way to confirm the cited letter’s validity past this publication’s claim”

It was made up by Taxil in his made-up books and pamphlets. These publications are the absolute primary source of said “letter.” Furthermore, Taxil was able to make Albert Pike and Mazzini the linchpins in this Luciferian Palladium rite because both were dead by the time he put poison to paper. Taxil had been sued before many times and he wasn’t about to be have his assets seized again and put in jail.

“You also find major publications (The Times) which discuss the Taxil Hoax.”

No. The London Morning Post published a huge multi-part series on the conspiracy of the Jews to take over the world and enslave us all. They were the first promoters of the Protocols in the English language.

“In these publications it is reported a man named Leo Taxil claimed …”
The press at the time reported his ruse. He held a press conference and his confession was reported in newspapers on both sides of the Atlantic. The “publications” afterwards didn’t have to “claim” anything. It happened and was recorded contemporaneously.

“A- The existence of the letter in “The Devil in the 19th-century” can’t be validated.”
It is validated that that is the first place that it appeared. Never before. It was made up by Taxil and was part of the hoax material, laughing his ass off afterwards because he conned everyone – the gullible, the christians and the masons. It’s how he made his living – lying, cheating and publishing smut.

“It claims newspapers will use liberalism as a means of furthering their agenda” Oh my, what a prophet! Newspapers have and always will be used for one agenda or another. Conservative newspapers use their ideological proclivities to sway the reader in one direction as well – always have; always will.

“It claims not only that Christianity and Islam will essentially destroy each other” No. That is Carr who claimed that. He wrote that after Israel had become a nation and while they were fighting the Arabs for more land. Carr was a fundamentalist and knew full well what it says in the Bible about the end times – that the Islamic nations will march on Jerusalem and partake in Armageddon. That’s the lie – there was no WWI, WWII, or WWIII “prediction” in the so-called “letter.” He made it up one morning over tea and crumpets. What the fake “letter” actually says about Islam is the following: “The conversion of Protestants to the Temple of True Light will be gradual, sayeth the revelation; the fate of the Mohammedans will be entirely determined by a large and unexpected event occurring under the sixth sovereign pontificate of good Catholicism. It will follow from this that – far from being doomed to the cursed darkness of superstition – three hundred twenty million souls will be enlightened.”

Re: revolution and social doctrines

The period in which Taxil lived was an epoch of revolution after revolution throughout all of Europe. And it was also a time when secularism gained hold and finally seized power. That’s no prediction – it was happening, and did happen, right before everyone’s eyes. The Pope was kicked out of Italy for God’s sake, and revolutionaries occupied the Vatican. A greater upheaval I cannot fathom.

“In all my research I’ve come upon both nonsense and some great revelation”
Well, count yourself privy to more nonsense, of the highest order.

“my hat goes off to him because only the adversary himself could have told a more grandiose lie”
More grandiosity in the thousands upon thousand of pages of bunk include the most childish asinine claims such as a demon shaped like a crocodile playing the piano for the big bad satanist masons, demons writing prophecies on the back of the harlot Vaughan with their tails, while Pike, with a magical watch, taking weekly marching orders from Lucifer himself. Taxil put these bits in to see how far he could go and was truly flabbergasted at the level raw credulity.

“Tracking down this publication it does claim the letter was written from Pike to Mazzini and cites the alleged letter in the text …”

No. Carr, Rodriguez and the antisemites who wrote “The Cause” do not cite the letter. All of them, only cite one paragraph. That’s it. I translated the full “letter” into English for the first time.”
– I was referring to the original publication (which you translated).

““You also find major publications (The Times) which discuss the Taxil Hoax.”

No.”

– A link you gave directs to an article discussing the Taxil Hoax written by The Times.

““In these publications it is reported a man named Leo Taxil claimed …”
The press at the time reported his ruse. He held a press conference and his confession was reported in newspapers on both sides of the Atlantic. The “publications” afterwards didn’t have to “claim” anything. It happened and was recorded contemporaneously.”
– I was questioning the media, along with Taxil, being complicit in dismissing the publication. Not the fact of whether the event took place.

““It claims newspapers will use liberalism as a means of furthering their agenda” Oh my, what a prophet! Newspapers have and always will be used for one agenda or another. Conservative newspapers use their ideological proclivities to sway the reader in one direction as well – always have; always will.”

– Fair enough.

““It claims not only that Christianity and Islam will essentially destroy each other” No. That is Carr who claimed that.”
– Correct. My mistake for confusing them.

“The period in which Taxil lived was an epoch of revolution after revolution throughout all of Europe. And it was also a time when secularism gained hold and finally seized power. That’s no prediction – it was happening, and did happen, right before everyone’s eyes.”

You’re referring to Voltaire and the Age of Enlightenment during the French Revolution and the years following? Which I believe he even mentions “The Cult of the Supreme Being” or alluded to it in the text. The beginning of that whole period seems to mirror what is happening within the US today. The seemingly coordinated attack on Christianity through the argument of “We don’t need religion to tell us right from wrong. We have reason, science, and logic.”. Which lead to the formation of The Cult of Reason and later The Cult of the Supreme Being.

That same sentiment is seen down throughout the ages. During the Age of Enlightenment in the French Revolution and after. The Fabian Society in the UK etc. etc. and down through time. The same sentiment appears in a new group under a new name only the goal remains the same.

““In all my research I’ve come upon both nonsense and some great revelation”
Well, count yourself privy to more nonsense, of the highest order.

“my hat goes off to him because only the adversary himself could have told a more grandiose lie”
More grandiosity in the thousands upon thousand of pages of bunk include the most childish asinine claims such as a demon shaped like a crocodile playing the piano for the big bad satanist masons, demons writing prophecies on the back of the harlot Vaughan with their tails, while Pike, with a magical watch, taking weekly marching orders from Lucifer himself. Taxil put these bits in to see how far he could go and was truly flabbergasted at the level raw credulity.”

-I was considering the predictions made that have come true today. Aside from some of the vague ones I mentioned (liberalism in media) but more so the less vague ones. Such as the removal of Christianity from the public schools. His call to use publications to essentially demonize Christianity. Which we see evident today. Most Christians (So-called) are terrified to even mention in a work place that they are actually Christians or voice their opinions as they’ve been labeled as bigots by way of media.

Taxil also often mentions “The Illuminated” or similar when referencing his “brothers”. This, also considering the period of the destruction of Christianity in Europe was dubbed “The Age of Enlightenment” I find it interesting that the name Lucifer essentially means “The Light Bringer” or “Light Bearer” or “The Shining One”. So the luciferians referred to themselves and others as “The Illuminated” having been touched by The Lightbringer. Also the allegory of Satan tempting Eve with a fruit of wisdom. Where “light” can also be translated as “knowledge”. So, Lucifer tempted Eve with enlightenment.

At any rate, I’m mostly rambling now as it is 6am here and it is far past my bed time. I did not mean to offend in any way. I was just very intrigued by all of this just happening to stumble upon it. Thank you for the reply and for your time.

“You’re referring to Voltaire and the Age of Enlightenment during the French Revolution and the years following?”
No. I was referring to the 19th century – Taxil’s time – not the 18th. The 18th century was marked by the ascendancy of philosophy and the fight for ability to criticize religion. The 19th century was the century of revolutions – hundreds of them all over Europe. It’s when kings really were disposed and secularism came to power- the Carbonari, Garibaldi, Mazzini, Marxism and socialists of every stripe. More significant and world changing than either the French Revolution or the American revolution.

Like it or not we now live in a secular society. That’s the way it is. Religion was intentionally left out of the affairs of the state. The founding fathers wanted it that way because they understood the detrimental effect that theocracy had on freedom – freedom to think for yourself and freedom to criticize both the state and the church.

The “culture wars” is a remnant of the 19th century. Some Christians – Dominionists, for example – want the good ole days of theocracy and the church meddling in the affairs of all our lives. I for one do not subscribe to such a thing, and would fight to the death for that not to occur. There’s about as much freedom in a theocracy as there is in a totalitarian communist state. In both instances power is absolute.

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Opinion Abounds Below
““You’re referring to Voltaire and the Age of Enlightenment during the French Revolution and the years following?”
No. I was referring to the 19th century – Taxil’s time – not the 18th. The 18th century was marked by the ascendancy of philosophy and the fight for ability to criticize religion.”
-If you consider the Jacobins guillotining 10’s of thousands of people while ransacking churches “criticism”….sure. This has been the MO of the liberal school of thought for centuries. They use the rallying call of liberty and freedom for the people to attract positive public opinion. All while silencing or just outright murdering anyone who disagrees with their own opinions.

That is not liberty. That is tyranny and hypocrisy. Always denying with their mouths what their hands are doing. (This is probably why the Fabian Society’s original coat of arms was a wolf in sheep’s clothing.)

“Like it or not we now live in a secular society. That’s the way it is. Religion was intentionally left out of the affairs of the state. The founding fathers wanted it that way because they understood the detrimental effect that theocracy had on freedom – freedom to think for yourself and freedom to criticize both the state and the church.”
– They understood religion had no place in the governing body of a republic. However, most of them understood the necessity of its tenets on society. They sought a way to maintain religion within the society but to not allow it to have control of the governing body as was the case in Europe with the papacy or the church and its influence on the monarchy.
The cult of the supreme being was their first attempt to achieve this goal and to take governing authority away from the church while maintaining religion. When they founded the US, the governance was framed in such a way as to maintain religion within the masses but to not allow it to achieve any kind of governing authority. Thus, the separation of church and state but with the freedom of religion not to be violated.
The argument of whether the US was founded on Christianity continues to this day because both sides are half correct. It was, and in a sense it wasn’t. It had no place in governance, but it does within society. At least, if your goal is to have a well functioning society it is. If your goals are different, perhaps not. (If you’re seeking to change forms of government and you need a social collapse/revolution from within to facilitate that change…then you might want to remove it for a while.)
Some framers even commented on Christianity having proven itself to be the best system evidenced so far. Or John Adams in particular “I have examined all religions, and the result is that the Bible is the best book in the world”. Though not all Christian, even those framers of the Supreme Being belief still understood the purpose of religion.
Atheism and those of the cult of reason are trying to replace religion with science. You can’t put a square block into a round hole. Science is useful in technology and innovation, but what good is all that technology when the society beneath it collapses? Likewise, religion has no place in the realm of science. They are two very different things which serve two very different purposes. The attempt to manage society “scientifically” is going to lead us to a much darker place than the church ever has.

“The “culture wars” is a remnant of the 19th century. Some Christians – Dominionists, for example – want the good ole days of theocracy and the church meddling in the affairs of all our lives. I for one do not subscribe to such a thing, and would fight to the death for that not to occur.”
– Agreed.

Not trying to debate right or wrong. Rather, just discuss opinion. Thus the disclaimer.

The French Revolution wasn’t the be-all end-all of the 18th century, though it was its inevitable result. The entire century was basically a fight to be able to criticize religion (and the monarchy) and not worry about going to prison or being burned at the stake. Public burning of people still occurred in backward Germany as late as the 1750s.

The French Revolution was a failure. They went too far and the result was Napoleon’s dictatorship, then back to monarchy, then another revolution, then back to monarchy, then another revolution, and on and on. All throughout Europe the same thing occurred. The 19th century was the century of revolutions. It wasn’t until the very end and the beginning of the 20th that a certainly stability was enjoyed. … and then you had the two world wars which was even worse.

I agree. The Bible is the best religious book in the world if you concentrate solely on the New Testament and the “red” words of Jesus. Morality in the Old Testament is questionable at best, and downright scary if you apply it literally (much like the Koran).

“The attempt to manage society ‘scientifically’ is going to lead us to a much darker place”
Agreed. However, it is not just an attempt. Between the NSA, Google and Facebook, they already “manage” billions of us and it will only get worse as we become more dependent on tech in our lives. When everything is connected to everything and AI finally achieves omnipresence there will be no escaping the matrix.

“I agree. The Bible is the best religious book in the world if you concentrate solely on the New Testament and the “red” words of Jesus. Morality in the Old Testament is questionable at best, and downright scary if you apply it literally (much like the Koran).”
-Exactly this. Very much so.

““The attempt to manage society ‘scientifically’ is going to lead us to a much darker place”
Agreed. However, it is not just an attempt. Between the NSA, Google and Facebook, they already “manage” billions of us and it will only get worse as we become more dependent on tech in our lives. When everything is connected to everything and AI finally achieves omnipresence there will be no escaping the matrix”
– I have deeply considered this situation. The situation of technology and what it means to us. We have always praised technology because it has, up to this point, made our lives much easier. It will reach a point though when it leads to our destruction. Or at least the destruction of liberty.
This consideration of technology and its advancement has lead me to what appears to be several truths.
Firstly, it gives an explanation to the depopulation agenda. In the system in which we’ve lived up to this point, the system needed workers to support it. People working on the industrial line. People to go off to fight wars. For every person, you had a job or a need to match them with. A place where they benefit the system.

In the future, that is not the case. You have self driving cars coming onto the market even now. That invention alone is enough to take what someone said could be 20% of the job market. Considering semi-truck drivers, transportation, or any form of job which requires a driver that could be replaced by a self driving car. A car which doesn’t require a salary and statistically less likely to get in a car accident.

Where do those workers go? All those people? Welfare? More jobs will soon follow as more people are replaced with nowhere left to go. There will be no use for them. Researching fast-food restaurants which are fully automated. They’re testing entire warehouses which are fully automated. A self driven vehicle pulls up, a robot forklift unloads and stacks it’s payload, then it drives away. The human worker will become obsolete and that is a fact. Only a matter of time.

So then, what is to become of all those people? They could only be a drain on the system. They have no use in that world. People dream of this utopian society of plenty. Where everyone sits around being served by robots. It simply will not be the case. People sitting around doing nothing but consuming, creating waste while contributing nothing? While having more children to do the same?That is not efficient and it will not be allowed.

The depopulation is for this very purpose. There is no use for so many people in the future. They would only be seen as parasites, draining off the system and contributing nothing to it. As a result of technology, it is really necessity that the numbers come down. They would have to. Society structured in such a way could not support them.

Secondly, the advancement of technology would lead to another inevitable conclusion. Totalitarianism. It would have to. Consider a future where a person could fit a bomb capable of wiping out an entire city block….in their pocket. Biological weapons even more dangerous.

Such a world could not exist without a society under absolute totalitarian control. Being monitored every second of every day. You would have to be. It couldn’t be any other way. Really, the greatest deception of all has been the deception of technology.

We’ve been conditioned to accept technology entirely and not question it. Of course it’s good for us. It has made our lives easier. No one ever realizing the truth. That in the end, it will be used to enslave us.

I watched a program showing the “top 10 inventions this year”. Nearly half of them were tracking devices. A keychain with a tracking device, of course, so that you never lose your keys. A wallet with a tracking device, of course, so you don’t lose your wallet. Already we have watches with tracking devices. When you think about how obvious it really is as to what is happening it is just absurd that no one even bothers to notice. This incredible transition in our society happening right in front of them, oblivious.

People walk around every day with a device in their pocket which has a camera, an audio recorder, and a tracking device that can record and track every single thing they do every moment of every day. They’ve even been told that people have the ability to turn on their mic, turn on their camera, and track them without their knowledge and yet they walk around oblivious. Never realizing how absolutely ridiculous or incredible that is. In the process of being conditioned.

All that you can really do though is detach yourself, sit back, and watch the show. Hoping that the insanity I see unfolding on the television isn’t waiting for me around the corner when I walk outside.

The price of technology decreases in direct proportion to how far it advances. The silver lining is that in a hundred years interstellar travel would have been perfected and it will be accessible to everyone. The cosmos is our only hope.

Great research. being a ex-free Mason I have nothing to contribute for the Order but its always about status. The Three degrees didn’t do it for me. When upon entering the Master Lodge I was asked To whom I put my faith in ,I answered Jesus Christ. They should have escorted me out. Wrong answer. I stayed in and completed the Master Mason Degree. Not much but a few guys playing out parts in a beautiful Play. Farther you go in Scottish or York its much more advanced and leans toward Muslim scripted parts and teachings all the way to the Shrine. Carr did awaken something that has always bothered me. Our Revolution and Civil Wars. Rothchild and the Federal reserve. I will research more to satisfy my ” somethig is going on’. LOL

Thanks for this! I found a Mazzini Collection from Princeton in my archive and remembered the name from hearing the Pike thing years ago. I knew it was nonsense, but it’s nice to know where the lines between these things are and to know of the most important Republican agitator in Europe at the time.

While I take sincere interest in the effort you have put into debunking this. The result is however the same. It is not really a hoax because it is happening right now. Heck I read about this in 1979 when I was studying the occult and the religious section of the Anaheim public library. This hoax as you call it just happens to be a smoking gun is the only reason it is being debunked. Reading masonic sanctioned writings will substantiate the contents of the bogus letter for the most part and watching it play out on the world stage is evidence that it is not a hoax that it is the intention of those involved to discredit it while fulfilling it. That is why it’s secret and how it remains secret is because no one admits it and anyone who divulges it is debunked. The hoax is that those people (Carr and Taxil) were hoaxing. Very clever and were it not so obvious from the headlines from the past 50 years it would be quite easy to discount. I’m not sure that is easy to follow. But it is called hiding something in plain sight. But thank you for adding all the other supporting documentation. I had an interesting time putting all the pieces together back in 79 from all those rosirucian and grimoires and magick and freemasonry books and trying to decode the books that were written with missing and shifted letters and other coding techniques. They all pointed to the same thing just like the Holy Bible just from a slightly different perspective and easier to understand format but a somewhat more sinister perspective. Either way thanks for digging out all that source material to help others research. I’m sure that it is helpful to both the people it was intended for and those it was intended to mislead.

Excellent research, congratulations! The comment section is just as revealing and entertaining as the article. 🙂

While the authenticity of the text has come to a foggy ground and I can see the plausibility of everything stated; there’s a certain degree of irrelevance whether this was written by Pike , Carr or Taxil. The plan outlines proves that whoever constructed it, possessed a greatly developed knowledge of history and precognitive senses. This information was planted so it can grow into a weltanschauung. It is adequately covering what happened and using this as a convincing point, projects an outcome. Carr might had to be the person who wrapped up this operation by adding his bit of information and leverage, so it is lifted back into the collective consciousness. So, that we can talk about it, research it, being led down a rabbithole. When we reach the bottom of that, it will not matter whether what has been told is true or a lie- it has been told as a spell and released into to the Universe. By extension, it has become a self-fulfilling prophecy; the Zionist interests (US/NATO) are clashing with the radicalized/demonized/extremist Islam (by coincidence, on European soil again, but not exclusively). The Luciferian doctrine, disguised as modern science, is reaching down into our genetic level and breeds species who are fully controlled automatons (mind-control, chemical alteration/GMO food, gender confusion etc.) The typology and characterology of the human being has been hacked and scrambled. Without direction and sense of Center, the over-programmed, mind-controlled humankind is about to spin out into the final periphery of existence.
We are being destroyed, but recreated too at the same time. Keep up the good work, Mr. Melanson!
Godspeed!

The ‘plan’ was written by Carr in the 50s after WWI and II, after Israel became a nation and while they were having skirmishes with the Arabs over land. The Zionism against Islam part of the so-called WWIII is influenced by what he saw taking place in Israel and, being a Christian, what he knew of prophecy to come (which does indeed predict a clash between Israel and Muslims).

Bible prophecy knew nothing of Islam. The well read work of Hal Lindsay, The Late Great Planet Earth, written during the Cold War, focussed upon Russia as the main protagonist in the battle of Armageddon against Israel.

Notice the Eurocentric focus here- all being kinds of “white people.” Obviously we are being short sighted about this reality. Where are the non-Caucasians in this? Ever think this is all just artifacts of racism?

Terry, I saw you mention Carr’s knowledge of this Biblical prophecy in an earlier comment. I don’t know the first thing about this prophecy, but I can’t see how it could possibly ‘predict a clash between Israel and Muslims,’ as Islam was founded in the 7th Century, well after the youngest book in the New Testament was written. Am I missing something?

The countries mentioned to face off at Armageddon in the New Testament and in the Old Testament’s End Times scenario correspond to the arab world today (Persia, Syria, Egypt etc.), even Russia (Meshech and Tubal) and China (Kings of the East, predicted to have a 200 million man army, which China can indeed muster). Eschatological watchers have always been waiting for all the pieces to come into alignment. The mere fact that Israel abecame a nation after 2000 years is THE big sign that it’s ready to hit the fan; the antagonists in the prophecy line up perfectly as well.

You know, I find it interesting that you missed sort of the elephant in the room here. The 12 pages you quoted here actually seem to follow quite well with how the Devil has worked in society to remove Christianity from the public square. I would say this guy, who obviously is very anti-catholic either has a very good imagination on how to perform such evil, or perhaps he was actually inspired himself. I find these 12 pages more surprising than the original alleged prophecy that was debunked.

You have dome some great work showing the writing of Carr and Taxil is not what it seems. However, there is the possibility of hiding the truth in a lie. In science truth may be established by making testable predictions. The work of Carr reveals a blue-print for action that does make testable predictions; even though its claimed authority is clearly a fraud. The testable predictions are that political Zionism and Islam will be mutually destroyed, and that atheists and nihilists will be used to undermine Christianity – for instance consider the rise of the new-atheism. and its promotion in the media. Consider the current US EU political scene where patriotic forces and political Zionism are opposed sometimes violently by a strange alliance of the liberal left and Islam.

Clearly, there is a long term blue-print for change that has led to the rise of secularism, atheism and Zionism, and the undermining of Christianity.

Consider also the work of Leo Strauss, Persecution and the Art of Writing, who suggested that Classical writers should put a double truth into their work, an exoteric one for the masses another esoteric one for the elite. See also Steve Fuller’s, Science vs Religion, Ch2.2 who discusses this. Strauss, an inspiration to neo-conservatives, believed that society should be governed by ‘noble lies’ to keep the masses in check.

Amazing , I read your article because someone had posted it as Proof of the Three World War prediction. He obviously did not read it . I Loved it , You did such a thorough job of research. Your article was enjoyable and enlightening . And I even enjoyed the comments section . Sorry I must be Weird , I am Roman Catholic or should I say was. I am not a conspiracy fan , I do enjoy reading them . I Really want to say Thank You , I Really enjoyed Your article.

What you have found is interesting, but an ‘executive summary’ would come in handy for scholars and critics. Would it be fair to conclude this:

Canadian Author William Guy Carr appears to have borrowed (in his 1958 book Pawns in the Game’) from the 1894 book “Satanism in the 19th Century” (Le diable au XIXe siècle, by Leo Paxil – an admitted hoaxer) Paxil’s fantasy “Pike’s letter to Mazzini” (which has no proven existence), but that Carr (after the world wars / 1958) has taken Paxil’s forgotten hoax and mixed it with his own crucial narrative, the enigmatic blueprint/prophesy of a ‘three world war scenario, dated15th of august 1871’ and that William Guy Carr then claimed that letter (the plagiarized Paxil-hoax mixed with his fantasy-prophesy) had been on display as an authorized Albert Pike document in the British Library ACCORDING to Cardinal Caro y Rodriguez, while no credible witness (not the cardinal nor the library) could confirm having seen that letter.

1. Taxil writes for years that Freemasonry is part of a satanic cult because there was a market for it as there was a sort of satanism and occultism hysteria in that era.
2. After Taxil admitted that the whole thing was hoax other people kept on perpetuating the hoax – by quoting from the Taxil texts – while not telling their readership of the ruse. In particular, for the study at hand, Albert Pike was quoted from the fake letter in Taxil by the antisemitic Morning Post articles, which then was in turn quoted by Cardinal Rodriguez who said he got it form the Morning Post and said it came from the Taxil ‘Devil in the 19th Century’ book (again without informing the reader that Taxil was a fabricator).
3. The British Library business is that they had a copy of Taxil’s Le Diable au XIXème Siècle, which is what Rodriguez wrote in his book.
4. Carr couldn’t even get that last part right. He exaggerated what he read in Rodriguez and told his readers that the letter itself was on display in the library … cause that’s what bad conspiracists do: lie to their readers for kicks and profit.
5. One paragraph – one and one only – is repeated from the hoax letter through the three sources (Morning Post, Rodriguez, Carr).
6. This three world war business, per Carr and Haupt, is anther fabrication on top of the initial fabrication.

Right on. This letter and Carrs spicy addition are works of fiction and distraction. No such WW prophesy or plan by Pike was ever documented, and you found interesting context (‘satanic’ as anticlerical, etc). I just read that Haupt contacted the Library and concluded the same.
Thank you.

Carr may have wrapped, what he found to be an interesting opinion or idea, in something old, to not take title of it.
Btw. I did check your claims via various search engines, not just one. That is imperative, especially since this years’ internet censorship initiatives.

You have to understand Gnosticism to know why the destruction of “atheism” is nonsense. This is really the satan worshiping church goers trying to replace Jebus. They are still supernaturalists and knowledge is incompatible with supernaturalism and therefore claims of “gods”

Nevertheless, this is probably BS written in retrospect if it even exists at all.

Also, you have to understand that atheists were historically reviled worst of all. Guess what? Atheists can’t be controlled by claimed demands of spirits and deities. Supernaturalists have a long history of “crusades.” I don’t believe the Stalin was a naturalist nor were the other pseudoCommunist “atheist” atrocities.